Re: Discuss: an unpopular opinion re: UPSes
While I can share your deep mistrust of UPSes, particularly with all the stories on here, they certainly have a great deal of value. Independent power feeds are only truly independent if they're coming from wildly separate sources - different ends of the building, connected to different power companies, etc. Horrifically expensive, and still prone to the occasional blip. Whereas a routinely maintained and tested UPS - tested as in true, full-load "will it take over and run for a few minutes" test - is far cheaper and, arguably, more reliable.
I personally have a tiny consumer-grade UPS (APC, but a little one) at home, running my home server and router. All I'm looking for is about 30 seconds of extra power, as most of our outages are only for a fraction of a second. Being a mini desktop with low power requirements, though, I really get about an hour. It's prevented a LOT of reboots.